Gangsters Hijack Home PCs to Choke Internet with Spam

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The Times.co.uk.

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Amichai Inbar, identified as the world’s fifth most significant spammer,
has been using a London-based internet company to control the networks of
hijacked computers, The Times has discovered. He is responsible for
billions of e-mails advertising pornography, drugs such as Viagra and
offers of “cheap” shares that turn out to be virtually worthless.

Mr Inbar, a Russian who also uses the names John Che Blau and Jonathan
Blau, operates from Tel Aviv, Israel, but is linked to spammers in Russia
and the US.

He is believed to have gained control of up to 150,000 computers that he
uses to send his own spam, or rents out the network to criminal gangs based
in Russia and the US.

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More:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2470742,00.html

- - ferg

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